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Art of the Northwest Coast (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm
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Art of the Northwest Coast (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center) Paperback - 2021

by Jonaitis, Aldona

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Essential reading for anyone interested in the art of Native cultures

Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although non-Natives often claimed that First Nations cultures were disappearing, Northwest Coast Native people continued to make art during the painful era of colonization, often subtly expressing resistance to their oppressors and demonstrating the resilience of their heritage. Integrating the art's development with historical events following contact with Euro-Americans sheds light on the creativity of artists as they appropriated and transformed foreign elements into uniquely Indigenous statements. A new chapter discusses contemporary artists, including Marianne Nicholson, Nicholas Galanin, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Sonny Assu, who address pressing issues ranging from Indigenous sovereignty and destruction of the environment to the power of Native women and efforts to work with non-Natives to heal the wounds of racism and discrimination.

About the author

Aldona Jonaitis is former director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and author The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine and coeditor of Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast.